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deadmax |
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July 27, 2011 07:06:20pm |
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Here Comes Sunshine |
I am listening to the 9-7-73 now and, of course, loving it but it brings something up for me. It's a jam vehicle like Viola Lee Blues but not quite like PITB, TOO or Dark Star, and it does it's job well but the name is so... well...unicorns and rainbows and stuff that I find it a strange mixture of song title and content. I mean, the jam can get quite intense and have a bit of an edge to it then they come out of it with the lilting lyrics.
What are the origins of this song? I might be missing some information.
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johnnyonthespot |
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July 28, 2011 11:50:12am |
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Re: Here Comes Sunshine |
I count this one as one of the ones where the fans ( in this case me ) has created a meaning for this song different than the one intended. I always thought wake of the flood was a metephor for the wake of the 60's
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Space Jogger |
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July 28, 2011 08:54:06am |
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Re: Here Comes Sunshine |
The Sunshine for TDIH 7-28-73 at Watkins Glen,NY is pretty awesome in my opinion. Phil is sounding super fat and is up and down the fretboard in a good way, the band pretty much nails it straight through, Jerry is playing simultaneously aggressive and delicate. Jerry slams the mid-section with heavy rock stabs to really get the crowd's attention. This groove was being laid down for half a million people. Pretty impressive!
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1973-07-28.sbd.weiner.181.shnf
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light into ashes |
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July 27, 2011 10:09:27pm |
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Re: Here Comes Sunshine |
Lyrically, as Hunter says, it seems to come from his memory of a 1949 flood. The music arrangement may have more than a nod to the Beatles... I also find it jarring when the jam gives way to those harmonized choruses....Eyes of the World has a very similar vocal arrangement, though. Actually, you could easily transpose the choruses of those two songs!
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deadmax |
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July 28, 2011 04:41:34am |
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Re: Here Comes Sunshine |
The Wake of the Flood thing makes sense now especially with the lyrics posted below except I still can't make sense of them. I also agree about the similarities between HCS and Eyes of the World and I see why Eyes won that one.
But I do love me a nice HCS.
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dark.starz |
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July 27, 2011 07:23:57pm |
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Re: Here Comes Sunshine |
Did you intend to mean "what was Hunter thinking" at that time in history? Mississippi Half Step indeed!
Wake of the flood, laughing water, forty-nine,
Get out the pans, dont just stand there dreamin
Get out of the way, get out of the way,
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.
Line up a long shot maybe try it two times, maybe more,
Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor,
Why hold out for more?
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.
Askin you nice, now, keep the mother rollin
One more time, been down before,
You just dont have to go no more, no more.
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.
We understand what Garcia > Keith > Weir > Lesh > Kruetzman were thinking, yes?
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fenario80 |
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July 27, 2011 07:50:35pm |
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Re: Here Comes Sunshine |
"(Remembering the great Vanport, Washington flood of 1949, living in other people's homes, a family abandoned by father; second grade)"
Quoted from Hunter's Box of Rain collection ... I think this one is among Hunter's more personal lyrics, but I make no claim to having any clue what the song's really about
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Lou Davenport |
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July 27, 2011 07:15:09pm |
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Re: Here Comes Sunshine |
I can't answer your question, but "unicorns and rainbows" is a great description of the feel of HCS jams. I was listening to the 04/02/73 Boston Garden a couple of months ago and was impressed. Segue via space is into Me and Bobby McGee.
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yesss! |
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July 27, 2011 11:45:38pm |
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Re: Here Comes Sunshine |
yeah, i love that 4/2/73 transition. some artful space happening there. and, though i personally enjoy it sometimes, i think that the "unicorns and rainbows" vibe may have been what ultimately took Here Comes Sunshine out of the repertoire in '74. Wake of the Flood got some negative reviews at the time for being too "hippy dippy" and i suspect that HCS, Birdsong, and others were axed from the set lists in favor of the material that suited the more funky, jazzy, and aggressive feel of '74. that, and the perilous vocal harmonies and somewhat clunky song structure. good while it lasted, though. classic '73, imho.
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jerlouvis |
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July 27, 2011 10:11:00pm |
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Re: Here Comes Sunshine |
Yes sir Lou,that is one of the finest segue's I have ever heard the band pull off,and both the Here Comes and Bobbie McGee are standout versions.
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